Chance the Rapper Added as Headliner for 2017 Essence Festival

Chance the Rapper is the latest headliner addition to this year’s Essence Festival. The newly minted Grammy winner will make his Essence Festival debut when he joins fellow headliners Diana Ross, Mary J. Blige and John Legend at the annual event, which returns to the Superdome in New Orleans on June 30-July 2.

More than 40 acts will perform this year, including the following new additions that now complete the full lineup: No Limit Records’ Mystikal, Mia X and Silkk, plus BJ the Chicago Kid, Daley, Elle Varner, Emily Estefan, Gallant, Kelly Price, Leela James and Rhonda Ross.